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  • Seal hunter Emil Madsen's rifle tied to a wooden stand during one of his hunting trips near his home in Cap Hope, Greenland. (Emil Madsen is featured in the book What I Eat: Around the World in 80 Diets.) He has just shot a seal and is rowing his small plywood boat out to haul it in before it sinks out of sight and reach. Unfortunately he did not reach this seal in time and it was lost beneath the ring of blood on the clear arctic sea. Seal meat continues to be an important source of meat for some Greenlanders, but for many, Danish food has replaced it in the native diet.
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  • Two minke whales surface in iceberg littered waters in the Antarctic Peninsula, seven miles south of the Errera channel..
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  • Sailboat near Akademik Vernadsky Station on Galendez Island. Built and previously operated by the British. Its claim to fame is the discovery by British scientists, at what was then called Halley Station, of the hole in the ozone layer in 1985. Antarctica.
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  • Antoinette Boulat leaves a bakery with two bagettes. Paris, France. MODEL RELEASED.
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  • (MODEL RELEASED IMAGE). Taking special care about cracks in the ice, Emil Madsen selects the best spot for some on-shore seal hunting. In the spring this can be dangerous because the ice is breaking up and sometimes huge pieces break off and move out to sea. He is carrying a rifle and home-made wooden gun support. Giant iceberg in background  in the open water beyond the sea ice edge.(Supporting image from the project Hungry Planet: What the World Eats.)
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  • A group of minke whales surface in iceberg littered waters in the Antarctic Peninsula, seven miles south of the Errera channel. .
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  • Delayed for a day by offshore winds and cracks that threatened to push new islands of ice out to sea, seal hunter Emil Madsen (far right in black) readies his small plywood skiff on this calm, sunny day in Cap Hope village, Greenland.  (From the book What I Eat: Around the World in 80 Diets.)
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  • Emil Madsen, a seal hunter, with his typical day's worth of food on the sea ice in front of his sleeping sled dogs near Cap Hope village, Greenland. (From the book What I Eat: Around the World in 80 Diets.) MODEL RELEASED.
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  • (MODEL RELEASED IMAGE). After quickly motoring over to the seal to haul its body out before it sinks, Emil Madsen, tired after hunting, heads back home. Hungry Planet: What the World Eats (p. 151).
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  • Antarctic Peninsula after summer sunset at 11:35 PM. Because in summer it does not get dark, there are several hours each day/night with pink skies. Seen from the Scandinavian-built ice-breaker Akademik Sergey Vavilov, originally built for the Russian Academy.
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  • Taking special care around the treacherous cracks in the ice near Cap Hope village in Greenland, Emil Madsen selects the best spot for some on-shore seal hunting.   (Emil Madsen is featured in the book What I Eat: Around the World in 80 Diets.)  The caloric value of his typical day's worth of food in May was 6500 kcals. He is 40 years of age; 5 feet, 8.5 inches tall; and 170 pounds. In the spring this can be dangerous because the ice is breaking up and sometimes huge pieces break off and move out to sea. He is carrying a rifle and home-made wooden gun support.
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  • A huge piece of a glacier calves off into the sea behind nesting Gentoo penguins on Cuverville Island, Antarctic Peninsula.  Nesting pairs on the Gentoo penguin colony on the island tend their eggs and chicks. They have to be vigilant to ward off skua birds who try to eat the eggs and chicks.
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  • Gentoo Penguin colony in Neko Harbor, on the eastern shore of Andvord Bay. Antarctic Peninsula. Large glacier calving in the background.
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  • Half Moon Island, home to over 3000 pairs of chinstrap penguins, many with chicks at this time of year, late in the Antarctic summer. Off the Antarctic Peninsula.
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  • Half Moon Island, home to over 3000 pairs of chinstrap penguins, many with chicks at this time of year, late in the Antarctic summer.
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  • Kayaking by icebergs near Port Lockroy, Antarctic Treaty Historic Site No. 61, British Base A. Home to a small Gentoo penguin colony. Antarctica.
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  • Petermann Island, home to the southernmost breeding colony of gentoo penguins, located below the Lemaire channel, near the Antarctic Peninsula. In the background is the Scandinavian-built ice-breaker Akademik Sergey Vavilov, which was originally built for the Russian Academy of Science and still used occasionally by scientists. It is now predominantly used for adventure touring in both the Arctic and the Antarctic. The ship is currently operated by a Russian crew, and staffed with employees of the adventure touring company Quark Expeditions, and carries around 100 passengers at a time. Antarctic Peninsula...
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  • Kayaking off Petermann Island, home to the southernmost breeding colony of gentoo penguins, located below the Lemaire channel, near the Antarctic penninsula
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  • Kayaking off Petermann Island, home to the southernmost breeding colony of gentoo penguins, located below the Lemaire channel, near the Antarctic penninsula
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  • Petermann Island, home to the southernmost breeding colony of gentoo penguins, located below the Lemaire channel, near the Antarctic peninsula
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  • Kayaking off Petermann Island, home to the southernmost breeding colony of gentoo penguins, located below the Lemaire channel, near the Antarctic peninsula.
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  • Kayaking in Antarctica off the Scandinavian-built ice-breaker Akademik Sergey Vavilov, originally built for the Russian Academy of Science and still used occasionally by scientists, is now predominantly used for adventure touring in both the Arctic and the Antarctic. The ship is currently operated by a Russian crew, and staffed with employees of the adventure touring company Quark Expeditions, and carries around 100 passengers at a time. Skontorp Cove.
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  • Kayaking off Petermann Island, home to the southernmost breeding colony of gentoo penguins, located below the Lemaire channel, near the Antarctic peninsula
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  • Gentoo Penguin colony in Neko Harbor, on the eastern shore of Andvord Bay. Antarctic Peninsula.
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  • Gentoo Penguin colony in Neko Harbor, on the eastern shore of Andvord Bay. Antarctic Peninsula.
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  • Petermann Island, home to the southernmost breeding colony of gentoo penguins, located below the Lemaire channel, near the Antarctic peninsula
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  • Sunset on the Antarctic Peninsula, seen from  the Scandinavian-built ice-breaker Akademik Sergey Vavilov, originally built for the Russian Academy of Science and still used occasionally by scientists. It is now predominantly used for adventure touring.
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  • Sunset on the Antarctic Peninsula, seen from  the Scandinavian-built ice-breaker Akademik Sergey Vavilov, originally built for the Russian Academy of Science and still used occasionally by scientists. It is now predominantly used for adventure touring.
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  • Kayaking in Antarctica off the Scandinavian-built ice-breaker Akademik Sergey Vavilov, originally built for the Russian Academy of Science and still used occasionally by scientists, is now predominantly used for adventure touring in both the Arctic and the Antarctic. The ship is currently operated by a Russian crew, and staffed with employees of the adventure touring company Quark Expeditions, and carries around 100 passengers at a time. Skontorp Cove.
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  • (MODEL RELEASED IMAGE). After a five-hour sled ride from Cap Hope, the Madsens arrive at their destination, a frozen lake below a glacier. They spent most of the night ice fishing (at the end of May the sun does not set this far above the Arctic Circle)  for artic char. The next afternoon, after another 6 hours of fishing everyone gets to enjoy Emil's dinner: steamed arctic char with curry and rice in the canvas tent. (Supporting image from the project Hungry Planet: What the World Eats.)
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  • View of the Chicon glacier in the far distance and the town of Urubamba in the Urubamba River Valley, Peru.
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  • (MODEL RELEASED IMAGE). After a five-hour sled ride from Cap Hope, the Madsens arrive at their destination, a frozen lake below a glacier. Tired and hungry, everyone wolfs down Emil's musk ox stew with pasta in the canvas tent. Hungry Planet: What the World Eats (p. 149).
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  • Rockies, Western Canada, near Glacier National Park.
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